Tag: distortion

• Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Six – Squeeze Me, Baby!

  

  I feel like I’m going to split. The central bomb bay section of the Pe-8 dictates the spread of the fuselage. Had I not included the interior, and just decided to join the fuselage halves without cutting the bomb bay, all this post would not have happened. As it is, it did. as much as…

  Dick Stein

  May 5, 2025

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly, Ukrainian models

  distortion, fillers, gaps

• Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part Two – Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

  

  I am nothing if not buoyant when it comes to really bad kits. It is the effect of cheerful optimism and iron-bound stupidity. I welcome a challenge…much as I welcome Redback spiders. Considered as an artistic thing, the port wing of the Revell Buffalo is rather elegant. It has a french curve to it. I…

  Dick Stein

  July 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, Dutch aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Brewster, distortion, Workshop

• Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part One – Baggie Of Doom

  

  They make a joke about the Shelf Of Doom on the Flory show…but we all know of kits that are headed there no matter what we do. The little Revell baggie containing the F2A model looked to be a prime example. It had resided in a hot and cold attic for decades before my friend…

  Dick Stein

  July 10, 2021

  1:72 scale, Dutch aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, research, Uncategorized

  Brewster, damaged kit, distortion, fighter plane